[SOLVED] New monitor hurts my eyes

[AStarRahimi]

I just got the G-MASTERG2470HSU-B1 for £154.99 from box. It is an IPS LED Backlit LCD Display at 165Hz with FreeSync Premium. I turned down all the contrast and brightness to 0 and the 3 colours that were set to 50, i reduced it all to 3. However I still do get eye strain, and dimscreen app is no help as I can't see in games. I just upgraded from a HP w2207 monitor, and I would play on 0 brightness, contrast settings on that, also the quality was good, but it wasn't 165hz, I need help. What to do?

 

[RARRAF]

how are you connected to it if not disply-port then that should be your first move then 165hz

 

[AStarRahimi]

how are you connected to it if not disply-port then that should be your first move then 165hz

by HMDI from my motherboard. No DP yet waiting for a good deal on a GPU

 

[RARRAF]

HDMI is junk and a GPU is of course needed.

 

[Karadjgne]

The color is saturation. Turning those from default 50 to 3 just makes colors wishy-washy, not solid.

Sharpness is as it says, it's the cleanliness of outlines, edges etc.

Contrast is the difference to gray, turning that down makes blacks and whites less vibrant and more grayish.

Brightness is the amount of light being pushed at you, so low brightness is appropriate for dark rooms, higher brightness for well lit rooms.

Turning those to minimums can create eyestrain as your eyes struggle to see differences, forcing you to squint etc. Most eyestrain comes from 2 sources, photo-phospherant lighting and blue-light. (UV)

Phospherant lights work at @ 60Hz. It's a pulse not a clean, solid light like incandescent bulbs. When mixed with a 60Hz output your brain registers the flickers, even if you can't physically see it. This can lead to instant headaches and eyestrain. The cure is change the monitor output to something different to 60Hz, 75Hz is common.

Blue light is UV, and the cure for that is sunglasses or blue light filtered pc glasses.

165Hz monitor is a maximum, not a constant. The constant is what's supplied to the monitor, which will be 60Hz for windows.

You make things worse by chopping the settings too far down.

 

[hang-the-9]

I just got the G-MASTERG2470HSU-B1 for £154.99 from box. It is an IPS LED Backlit LCD Display at 165Hz with FreeSync Premium. I turned down all the contrast and brightness to 0 and the 3 colours that were set to 50, i reduced it all to 3. However I still do get eye strain, and dimscreen app is no help as I can't see in games. I just upgraded from a HP w2207 monitor, and I would play on 0 brightness, contrast settings on that, also the quality was good, but it wasn't 165hz, I need help. What to do?

There may be some preset modes in the monitor, some of which may strobe the backlight for dynamic contrast and brightness. Changing the settings you did will just make the screen look really bad not do anything for eyestrain. Set it to the highest refresh rate you can, and you may want to get some better room lights.

 

[Windows22]

The color is saturation. Turning those from default 50 to 3 just makes colors wishy-washy, not solid.

Sharpness is as it says, it's the cleanliness of outlines, edges etc.

Contrast is the difference to gray, turning that down makes blacks and whites less vibrant and more grayish.

Brightness is the amount of light being pushed at you, so low brightness is appropriate for dark rooms, higher brightness for well lit rooms.

Turning those to minimums can create eyestrain as your eyes struggle to see differences, forcing you to squint etc. Most eyestrain comes from 2 sources, photo-phospherant lighting and blue-light. (UV)

Phospherant lights work at @ 60Hz. It's a pulse not a clean, solid light like incandescent bulbs. When mixed with a 60Hz output your brain registers the flickers, even if you can't physically see it. This can lead to instant headaches and eyestrain. The cure is change the monitor output to something different to 60Hz, 75Hz is common.

Blue light is UV, and the cure for that is sunglasses or blue light filtered pc glasses.

165Hz monitor is a maximum, not a constant. The constant is what's supplied to the monitor, which will be 60Hz for windows.

You make things worse by chopping the settings too far down.

I agree on that part, I too had a similar issue with a blue light. Contrast is also a big part in trying to register a difference.

 

[Karadjgne]

Exactly. Eyes suffer strain with differences not because of them.

A black square on white background with clean lines and edges is easy to see. If those lines and edges are fuzzy, your eyes end up trying to not see the fuzz and make clean edges because your brain knows its a black square.

Ask anyone who wears glasses about the affects of scratches or fingerprints on their lenses. That constant effort to not shift focus = intense eyestrain and headaches after a while.

Basically put, the harder it is to differentiate differences, the harder your eyes work and the sooner they become strained.

Blue light makes things worse because it's bandwidth has the effect of blurring edges. Hunting/shooting/driving glasses/fog lights are yellow for just that reason, increases contrast by counter-acting blue light, so increasing sharpness and visibility.

Change your monitor settings to Warm, it's as far away from Cool (higher blue light), increase contrast and sharpness and color saturation, lower the Blue in the RGB settings and set brightness at a comfortable level.